The 2008 film on the Iraq war, deemed too pro-military at the time, has now been labeled antiwar. Can both be true?
Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.
The sniper rifle clicks as a bullet flies through its barrel and eliminates the target more than half a mile away. Dust flies as the body of the target falls motionlessly to the hard ground beneath ...
There are embedded journalists in Iraq, and then there is "Iraq in Fragments" director James Longley. Longley, who takes war coverage far beyond the cable news channels' talking heads, collected 300 ...
Welcome to Theater of War, a regular column analyzing the relationship between Hollywood and the U.S. military. Looking back at almost 20 years of Iraq War movies, the first thought that comes to mind ...
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. During the subsequent eight years, the U.S. spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives fighting an ...
The war in Iraq has forever changed the war documentary. No longer confined to newsreel-style views from a distance, the Iraq films get up-close and personal with the troops, providing views of the ...
That's one reason Iraq may go down as the documentary war. Quietly but steadily, a body of inexpensive, do-it-yourself documentaries has begun to provide long-term perspectives of what it's like to be ...